Medal of Honor
June 2, 1898–June 3, 1898
Santiago de Cuba harbor entrance, Cuba
- Rank at action
- Coxswain
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Spanish-American War
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Merrimac assigned to the U.S.S. New York
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Claus Kristian Randolph Clausen — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
- Claus Kristian Randolph Clausen — Naval History and Heritage Command ↗Naval History and Heritage Command · Checked 2026-08-30
official Navy documentation that the U.S.S. Merrimac operation occurred during the night of 2–3 June 1898
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002258
- Transcription status
- Conflicting official citation variants preserved
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 529
- Other source date wording
- 1898-06-03
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Lieutenant
- Accredited to
- New York
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 1826d37139f5a612bc856767b3f1f744ffb6d3abd517f8a2c94fa02c7ed26e52
Official institutional sources disagree on a citation detail. The inherited canonical wording and the current Society wording are retained separately with supporting source records; no silent overwrite was performed.
The inherited rank-1 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Claus Kristian Clausen to Claus Kristian Randolph Clausen; both renderings remain preserved. The action rank Coxswain remains distinct from the later or highest rank Lieutenant. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Merrimac assigned to the U.S.S. New York; the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1898-06-02 through 1898-06-03 and classifies the action under Spanish-American War; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is Santiago de Cuba harbor entrance, Cuba; the complete inherited geocoder value Santiago de Cuba, Cuba remains preserved in the audit evidence. The Society structured action date is 1898-06-03; additional or conflicting date context in the rendered citation and supplemental official evidence is preserved separately. Official structured, citation, or supplemental-source date renderings differ. Each exact attributed value is preserved without silent overwrite. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.